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Awards: Listing of Funded Projects

Every year, NIJ awards grants and cooperative agreements for research, development, evaluation, testing and training and technical assistance projects across the spectrum of criminal justice.
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Subtopic: DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid)

Number of Awards: 2,575
Total Amount Awarded: $1,348,165,038

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2014 SADO''s Postconviction DNA Testing Project NIJ FY 14 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent State Appellate Defender Office MI 2014-DY-BX-K004 $337,314 Closed
2014 Salt Lake City Police Department Solving Homicide and Forcible Rape Cold Cases with DNA Project NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Salt Lake City Corporation UT 2014-DN-BX-K075 $270,000 Closed
2014 Serial Sexual Assaults: A Longitudinal Examination of Offending Patterns Using DNA Evidence NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Teen Dating Violence, Sexual Violence, and Intimate Partner Violence Michigan State University MI 2014-NE-BX-0006 $699,533 Closed
2014 Solving Cold Cases with DNA - New Orleans Police Department NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of New Orleans/New Orleans Police Department LA 2014-DN-BX-K069 $269,987 Closed
2014 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Grant NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Harrison County Sheriff''s Office MS 2014-DN-BX-K077 $149,825 Closed
2014 Solving New Haven Cold Cases with DNA NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of New Haven CT 2014-DN-BX-K079 $233,092 Closed
2014 The Alameda County (California) Sheriff''s Office Collaborating with the National Institute of Justice to Perform Necessary Investigative Research to Identify Cold Cases That Can Be Solved with DNA. NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA County of Alameda, California CA 2014-DN-BX-K065 $267,952 Closed
2014 The Enhancement of the Native American CODIS STR Database for Use in Forensic Casework NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA CA 2014-DN-BX-K024 $253,315 Closed
2014 The physical separation and single source DNA profiling of individual mixture components by RNA in situ hybridization-based cell type identification NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of Central Florida FL 2014-DN-BX-K018 $530,426 Closed
2014 Transcriptome Sequencing of Forensically Relevant Biological Fluids and Tissues to Obtimize Degradation Analysis for Sample Age Estimation NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences OK 2014-DN-BX-K025 $241,352 Closed
2014 Understanding the Use and Efficacy of Moderate Stringency DNA Searches NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Justice Systems-Related Topical Areas RAND Corporation CA 2014-IJ-CX-0005 $494,447 Open
2014 Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation, Cold Case Review Team NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Wyoming Office of the Attorney General WY 2014-DN-BX-K083 $90,000 Closed
2013 "FY2013 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF FORENSIC SCIENCES" NIJ FY 13 DNA Backlog Reduction Program Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences AL 2013-DN-BX-0107 $1,242,058 Closed
2013 2013 DNA Backlog Reduction for SLED NIJ FY 13 DNA Backlog Reduction Program South Carolina Law Enforcement Division SC 2013-DN-BX-0075 $1,159,816 Closed
2013 2013 DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Broward County Sheriff's Office NIJ FY 13 DNA Backlog Reduction Program Broward Sheriffs Office FL 2013-DN-BX-0092 $516,999 Closed
2013 2013 DNA Backlog Reduction Project - DuPage County NIJ FY 13 DNA Backlog Reduction Program DuPage County Office of The Sheriff IL 2013-DN-BX-0025 $296,770 Closed
2013 Advancing Probabilistic Approaches to Interpreting Low-template DNA Profiles and Mixtures: Developing Theory, Implementing Practice NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles CA 2013-DN-BX-K029 $545,303 Closed
2013 Anthropological Methods for DNA Analysis of the Missing and Unidentified Children Located at the Former Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Florida NIJ FY 13 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing University of South Florida FL 2013-DN-BX-K002 $423,528 Closed
2013 Assessing Sample Preparation Methods for Emerging DNA Sequencing Technologies in Human Forensic mtDNA Analysis Applications NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Western Carolina University NC 2013-DN-BX-K014 $717,768 Closed
2013 California DNA Assistance Program NIJ FY 13 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Governor's Office of Emergency Services CA 2013-DY-BX-K003 $962,489 Closed
2013 Combined Genetic and Micro-chemical Analysis of Household Dust as a Definitive Trace Identifier of a Room and its Occupants NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of Central Florida FL 2013-DN-BX-K025 $188,198 Closed
2013 Combining Efforts to Identify the Missing: A United States/Mexico DNA Project NIJ FY 13 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing Conference of Western Attorneys General CA 2013-DN-BX-K001 $384,539 Closed
2013 Delivery of a Microfluidic Acoustic Sperm Cell Trapping Prototype for Rapid Processing of Sexual Assault Evidence NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia VA 2013-NE-BX-K027 $199,744 Closed
2013 Developing DNA Friendly Fluorogenic Methods for Detecting, Enhancing and Preserving Bloody and Proteinaceous Impression Evidence NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Madonna University MI 2013-DN-BX-K026 $247,377 Closed
2013 Development of improved insertion-deletion assays for human and ancestral identifications from degraded samples NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2013-DN-BX-K036 $329,233 Closed